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11/14/2011

Tech and Ed Play With Web 2.0 Tools: Part 2 Jing and Other Screencasting Tools

Jing is a screencasting tool with tons of creative potential
in education. It belongs both in the
hands of instructors and students across content areas and ages. This post briefly
highlights Jing
and other screencasting tools as a part of the Tech
and Ed Play With Web 2.0 Tools series.

Getting Started With
Jing: Last year, I was a guest
blogger at the Teacher Challenge blog.
Here'sa LINK to my post. It’s where I suggest going to get familiar with
Jing! It walks you through downloading
it, gives examples of how I use it as a self introduction, to return feedback
to my students, and more.

More of My Jing
Examples:

How-to’s and diections: Most of the video recording I do on this
blog is with the Pro version of Jing, such as this
video about online timelines like dipity. I also find it useful for describing weekly
expectations and assignments in my online classes.

Other Screencasting
Tools: There are also a growing number of similar free screencasting tools.
A few of them are highlighted under on my screencasting page. I have found that my students who want to work from home
don’t always want to download Jing onto their computers, so these offer some
alternatives.

Here’s an example of a similar screencasting tool called Screen-O-Matic combined with Go Animate that one of my former
College of Ed students, Jessica Coleman, created about SLA.

Screencasting Apps
and Additional Resources: It's also
great to see some similar screen capturing apps for ipad such as Screen Chomp
and Show
Me. As these become increasingly more functional, they allow us
to use iPads in digital storytelling, etc. with relative ease. One of my favorite ESOL bloggers, Silvia Tolisano,
who blogs at Langwitches offers a lot
of examples and step-by-step guides for using screencasting tools in the
class. Check out her blog and search for screencasting tools,digital storytelling,
and ipads.

Discussion: What experiences do you have using Jing or
other screencasting tools? Feel free to share links to your creations or
contact us if you would like to use this blog as a platform to share some of
your students’ creations if appropriate.